Summary

Ever since Pasteur, chemists have tried to induce chirality in molecules without the intervention of any preexisting molecular chirality, for example, through stirring. But indications of induced chirality through stirring are usually discarded as irreproducible or as artifacts. In his Perspective,
Feringa
highlights the report by
RibÃ³
et al., who show that the formation of chiral assemblies of molecules can indeed be induced by stirring. The results may have implications for the origin of the single handedness of biomolecules.